"I Am Legend"- Movie Review

So this weekend I checked out Will Smith's latest film, "I Am Legend." I was sorely disappointed in the film and felt that many audience members were led astray by an amazing marketing plan.

The film is set in the not-so-distant future and centers around a scientific breakthrough gone wrong. A virus created to be a cure for Cancer has the ultimate effect of turning anyone exposed (internal or airborne) into a rabid, beast-like animal that cannot be exposed to sunlight. As a side-note, I thought it was peculiar that a scientist would create a virus to treat a genetic mutation such as cancer...especially in light of the recent breakthroughs in the field of genetics and the knowledge that genetic problems most likely require a genetic solution.

This movie should not have been billed as an action film. The subject matter is too dark and the ending too anti-climactic to be an action film. With that said, the Director should have directed and edited this film as a dark drama. Will Smith is a great actor but he's directed like an action star in a film where most of his dialogue is with his dog. My biggest issue with the film is that I felt misled. With a film that has so much interesting possibilities, and such dark content, the audience should have been led down the road of a drama. The score and music synced in the film should have reflected a drama. Instead, there were flutes and horns when there should have been violins and mandolins.

Smith's character isn't going to destroy evil or the bad guys with guns and bombs, he has to succeed at creating a vaccine to reverse the effects of a previous virus. With that said, the rabid humans aren't the bad guys and there really is no antagonist. This leads back to my issue with the film's marketing plan. The commercials for the film showed missiles hitting the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges as if there was some attack on humanity by an outside force. However, this film is about man's struggle with his own humanity.

In sum, manage your expectations when seeing the film but I've heard that a better adaptation of this same story can be seen in Charleton Heston's "Omega Man."

Who's the Master?!?! Sho-Nuff!!!

Who told this fool ass nigga to expose his chest? I can see his heart beating and his black lungs inhaling!

When the dog barks!!!....he goes.....woof?

"You got a problem with it then you can holler at me!" (as he walks out the door behind his bodyguards?) LOL!!!!

Now Toure is a disrespectful fool for those questions but Bow Wow made himself look like a clown.

Ike "I beat bitches" Turner is dead

R.I.P. to a legendary pimp!

Proposition Joe as a child (The Wire)

Huh?

I just know Master P is smarter than this!

Large Professor Sighting!

I'm a sucker for anything affiliated with "Illmatic." This video features AZ and Large Professor. I've always thought AZ was nice and this song proves that he still is.

I Love New York

As posted on media takeout:

December 11, 2007. Now we have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA whether this is true of false, but MediaTakeOut.com got an email from someone that said the following:
As a Big Screw You to Management at Vh1 I’m BLOWING THE LID ON THIS WHOLE THING. HERES HOW IT PLAYS OUT

NY choses Tailor Made. Hot 97 blew the lid on this one. E-mails were intercepted from NY to Tailor who were at the time spending time apart until the Reunion Show. And despite the denial…NY is actually pregnant and Get this …….the Lil’ Apple is Bhudda’s. This is revealed on the recently filmed reunion show when New York shows up with a new enlarged part… her belly.

Tailor Made feels betrayed and leaves NY. Bhudda swears he wore a condom, but NY says its his. ( I think an appearance on Maury Povich is in the works). I

She is about to Give Birth to the biggest cash cow ever: I LOVE NEW YORK 3.

VH1 wants to keep NY’s Pregnancy under wraps until the reunion show to ensure ratings.

I can’t lie. We Did ONe awsome job on the reunion show this time around. Its Heated with alot of twists. You definetely have to tune in.

Unfortunately certain members of our production team were cut out of the huge advertising profits. So SCREW YOU VH1

If these +@^& kers would pay me more I wouldnt have to Leak. So who got the last laugh VH f-ing 1? WHOS YOUR DADDY?
Insider at the Reunion Show Production Team

Did Taylormade really think that an aspiring actress, that was turned down by a troll like Flavor Flav, had a healthy enough self-esteem to be faithful. This show was like watching a train-wreck...you don't want to watch but you can't help but watch.
The show had several issues from the beginning and would have been redflags for any self-respecting real man:

1. She kept an unemployed midget that could have fit in her vagina past day one.
2. She kept several gay men on the show for too long....including Punk.
3. She brought back two gay rappers (Chance and Real, aka The Stallionaires) to evaluate character.
4. Her Hermaphrodite Mom gets to sleep with the men who get sent home.

The definition of wrong

And we wonder why we suffer disproportionately from heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and especially diabetes? A nineteen year old girl should not have that much cellulite....and if she does, she shouldn't be proud of it. Crunch Gym in Brooklyn is open 24 hours a day....her time would have been better spent at Crunch at 2am as opposed to Mars 2112.

Please give this man his props!

Somebody please give Pharoahe Monch a real shot. He's definitely one of the most innovative creators of song on the planet.

Myspace idiot

The most popular pose on myspace is this. -->
The foolishness of this boys' pose is self explanatory. Enjoy.